Dashboard
From UG
Dashboard - is a space below main menu on a Home Page. It is used to post various panels with valuable information such as "Truck Dom Stats".
See two Figures below. One for Client Dashboard and one for internal.
Dashboard for user notification
In case of user notifications dashboard is believed to be a better mechanism (in some cases) than scheduled reports.
Often design consist of a panel with a label and a single number with a hyper link that leads to an actual report in a separate tab.